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Celebrating the Society's
30th Anniversary
and the Museum Building's 125th Anniversary
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622 W. Park Avenue Hours:
Officers:
John Lyon - President Orrin Merritt - Vice President Roxy Carey - Secretary Dolores Gallagher - Treasurer Email: KVHS@atcyber.net
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Membership Annual Dues
Individual - $10.00
Family - $15.00
Sustaining - $25 - $100.00
Business - $25 - $100.00
Life - $1,000.00
Click on Membership Information banner for a membership
form and instructions.
Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Society is a 501(C) 3 not-for-profit organization.

Kishwaukee
Valley Heritage Society Index Project
Our newly computerized and indexed archive
information includes obituaries, family histories, photos, schools, businesses,
churches, organizations, sports, celebrations and property abstracts. This
is a partial listing of our accessions which are continually being up-dated.
Some interesting items included in our archives are the
following:
The Oldest horse drawn hearse in DeKalb
County
1923 Overland Touring Car
Model railroad trains
Depot built in 1882 and Caboose (Crummy) from 1950
An old printing press
Genoa Merchants baseball team scrapbook and pictures
A large collection of telephones made in Genoa including:
Wall telephones dating from 1892-1913
An Army field telephone and field switchboard from WWII
The first dial telephone
The prototype Strowger switch which began the automation of the telephone system
A large collection of pictures of telephones, switchboards and manufactured
parts.
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The Society has developed Pioneer
Family Files for use by researchers.
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The Society has several
publications available for purchase. |
This page maintained by Sheri Baker
Copyright 2007 Sheri Baker. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright of
submitted items belongs to those responsible for their authorship or creation
unless otherwise assigned.